Insufferable film, intolerable Akshay Rating: 1/5 Cast: Akshay Kumar, Jacqueline Fernandez, Nushrratt Bharuccha, Satyadev Kancharana, Na...
Insufferable film, intolerable Akshay
Rating: 1/5
Cast: Akshay Kumar, Jacqueline
Fernandez, Nushrratt Bharuccha, Satyadev Kancharana, Nassar, Parvesh Rana,
Jennifer Piccinato
Ram Setu is Akshay Kumar’s fifth film of the year and like his other film releases, this too falls flat only proving once again that Akshay is a non-actor.
Akshay
was once a bankable star but that era has long passed. He has now realized that
he is a big star and – like Salman Khan – and knows that whatever dish he
serves up, good or bad, the audience will devour it. Ram Setu tries to be an
Indian version of Indiana Jones, but ends up being a bad adventurous
propagandist film full of Hindu symbolism.
The film starts
in 2007 with Aryan on a joint expedition in Bamyan, Afghanistan after which he declares
himself to be an atheist. Meanwhile, Indrakant, the owner of Pushpak Shipping
Corporation (the backdrop has the same logo of Pushpak used in the cult Kamal
Hasan film) wants the government to dismantle Ram Setu as a part of his
Sethusamudram Project. Aryan joins hands with Indrakant to prove that the Setu
predates the birth of Lord Ram. He is helped in his quest by project manager
Bali (a meaningful Praveshh Rana), a Goa-based environmentalist Dr. Sandra
Rebello (Fernandez) and Dr. Gabrielle (Jennifer Piccinato). During his research,
he realizes that Ram Setu was probably built by Lord Ram and his Vanar Sena and
it is during this quest that he gets the assistance of a mysterious guide AP (a
brilliant Satyadev Kancharana).
A
film that tries to justify the actions of toxic Hindus, Ram Setu is a piece of
“art” that would lead anyone to exhaustion in the first 10 minutes. Half the
films of Akshay in the past six years have been propagandist and this is no
different. But while those films were bad but not insufferable, this is both!
The
viewer will have a clear idea of what kind of trash he’s about to watch from
the very first scene alone which features the Taliban blowing up a historic
artifact shown through Super 8mm frame. During Akshay’s monologue in Supreme
Court, it’s so obvious that he is reading his monologue off of a teleprompter –
visible through his spectacles – it would lead any hardcore Akshay fan to
question why he started following this “actor” in the first place.
Abhishek
Sharma’s direction and screenplay is amateurish which is surprising since he has
made some good films (Tere Bin Laden, Parmanu) in the past. The performances
are uniformly bad with the exception of Satyadev Kancharana who is funny as AP.
Akshay should honestly quit acting. He is simply intolerable as Dr. Aryan
Kulshrestha.
Jacqueline Fernandez as Dr. Sandra Rebello is strictly ok. Nushrratt Bharuccha as Professor Gayatri
Kulshrestha is an unnecessary addition to the cast while Nassar as
Indrakant hardly has any screen time but is good in the little to nothing
screen time he has.
Bad
visual effects, amateurish direction, bad script, bad dialogues, bad
characterization, bad set design, bad acting, bad music, bad cinematography,
this film has it all.
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